Why are the deaths from covid more tragic than the deaths from blood clots via the vaccine?

[Queenofclubs]

Can someone help to explain this to me?

So, at one point, just one death from covid was one too many, even if it was somebody over 80. Now some young people are dying from blood clots due to the vaccine, like that female news reporter. And people seem to shrug their shoulders and say things like “It’s for the greater good. I hope it doesn’t put YOU off having your vaccine”
The whole thing is utterly insulting and completely bizarre.

OP I agree, I’m in my 20s and perfectly fit & helathy. I’m not scared of catching COVID but I’m scared of the vaccine

@partyatthepalace

No - the point is, if everyone has the vaccine the deaths will be dramatically fewer than if COVID is allowed to run rampant.

People are accepting that the vaccine will cause some deaths and some serious side effects because the alternatives is very much worse.

I really hope you were only pretending you didn’t understand that.

Nobody is saying that it should be allowed to run rampant but there’s a huge difference between vaccinating people who are at risk of complications from the disease (top 9 groups identified by JCVI) and vaccinating low risk people who are very unlikely to die or even be particularly ill from covid but could die/be seriously injured/have nasty side effects from the vaccine. Covid isn’t necessarily a ‘worse alternative’ for them.

@mintjulia you need to break down those figures by age to give an accurate comparison of risk dependent on age.

I guess it comes down to choice
I had no choice when I contracted Covid. Even if I had not continued to work in order to pay the bills and stayed cocooned indoors I still may have caught it
I made an informed choice to have the vaccine. Anything we have injected into our body will carry a risk, we all know that. And sometimes we have to make less informed choices in life, when a medication is new and so on

Also, OP, and I speak as someone with experience, not all Covid deaths are deemed "tragic". I am one of those quiet ones, who has lost three close (elderly) relatives to Covid, and am not blaming anyone, or making out it was some terrible tragedy. I suppose I may be in the minority, but once your loved one is in a care home, something's going to get them eventually.

Personally I think it is more tragic if a younger person is vaccinated and dies. However, there are contraindications to all vaccinations, and many drugs, and most of us do actually "take one for the team" when it comes to vaccinations, because that's what vaccinations are. Millions vaccinated to prevent a disease, from which thousands could die, and from directly which one or two (by percentage) may also die.